The OSA Is an Invasion of Privacy: What the Online Safety Act Really Means for Ordinary People
The UK’s Online Safety Act is far more intrusive than most people realise. It treats private cloud backups as if they were public social media posts and paves the way for client-side scanning — technology that inspects your personal files on your own devices before they’re encrypted. This is a fundamental shift in how the state views privacy, and it demands public scrutiny.